new kernel for testing

[D. D. Brierton]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:12, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > the plan is to do a kernel update friday or monday (depending on the
> > > amount of things that turn up in this testing). There is a 424 kernel in
> > > the testing dir on the ftp repository and on
> > > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6
> > > One of the last minute changes is a series of patches to the input
> > > subsystem that are supposed to fix a lot of the "tapping my laptops
> > > touchpad doesn't work" bugs. So please beat hard on this kernel...
> > 
> > Does this kernel have FireWire re-enabled?
> 
> yes
> so if you have firewire hw, do beat on it too...
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________

So, I finally installed FC2 yesterday, and immediately updated to
2.6.6-1.427. FireWire seems to be working absolutely fine: my external
Iomega 120GB FireWire drive was detected and the nightly backup onto it
seems to have gone without incident. I have copied large (~400MB) files
to and from it without incident so far.

There was only one thing regarding this that struck me as not quite
right, but it's not a problem with the kernel but rather with kudzu.
When I first booted into 2.6.6-1.427 with the FireWire drive attached
kudzu recognised the device and asked if I wanted to configure it to
which I said yes. However, kudzu did not create a mount point for it
like it does for CD drives and floppies which I think it should. I
created an entry in fstab and a mount point in /mnt, but still no icon
for the drive showed up on my GNOME desktop even when the device was
mounted. I then added the option "users" to the fstab entry and an icon
appeared on the desktop. None of that was really a problem for me, but a
newbie would have just thought that FC2 was failing to see the external
drive. Should I bugzilla this (against kudzu/updfstab)?

Best, Darren

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